Natalya and Shayna Baszler talk about injuries in wrestling

In a video published to Dr. Beau Hightower’s YouTube channel, Natalya was receiving Naprapthy treatment and talked about dealing with injuries in wrestling…

“I do believe in prehab, not rehab. If we stay on top of our injuries and we keep [working on them]. With what we do it’s so physical. People often say like what we do is fake. It’s like, it’s so hard, Even just hitting the ropes will leave you with bruises. Hitting the mat’s hard, the ropes are hard, the turnbuckles are hard. It’s hard.”

Shayna Baszler, who was with Natalya for the session, commented on how injuries in wrestling are different from MMA injuries…

“There’s less recovery time. You have your fight and then you get a couple of weeks where you’re like eating junk food and you get to live a little. Even when you’re back to training when it’s not fight camp. The research on concussions and stuff is out. So there’s not a lot of camps that do hard sparring every week like old school days. So it’s like, you get time in between but when we’re on the road, five days a week it starts just adding up.” (quotes courtesy of SEScoops.com)